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Recent articles about Pentagram

Design odysseyIssue 99, Autumn 2019
Review

	Stanley Kubrick (1928-99) has long been the ultimate designers’ director, a…
      
Traces of a drifterIssue 93, Winter 2017
Opinion

	Camera in hand, Harry Pearce dives into the urban underbelly in search of the unfathomable. Photo…
The book of MichaelIssue 92, Summer 2016
Review

	It is a pleasure to read a book that is honest, accessible and direct about…
      
AutomonographyIssue 92, Summer 2016
Review

	Abbott Miller’s book tells the story of a life in design: starting out – as…
      
Dance on the spotIssue 89, Winter 2014
Feature

	Abbott Miller’s iPad contemporary dance apps for the 2wice Arts Foundation – a dynamic coming…
Design history disciplinedIssue 85, Spring 2013
Review

	What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided…
      
The rules of the gameIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature
For George Hardie, illustration is a problem-solving process: collecting looking and drawing with…
Head TripIssue 78, Winter 2010
Feature
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure
Shouting from the shelvesIssue 73, Autumn 2009
Review

	Faber and Faber, the independent British publisher founded in 1929 by…
      
Trust in ModernismIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Feature
The John Lewis Partnership’s co-operative ethos has informed 50 years of corporate identity.
Reputations: Peter SavilleIssue 17, Summer 1995
Feature

	‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised…
Reputations: Michael BierutIssue 24, Spring 1997
Feature

	‘The biggest challenge that faces a designer isn’t the quest for novelty, but coming to grips with…
Reputations: J. Abbott MillerIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Feature
'We could be more aware of the civility of design, of how it can be constructive in a poetic sense…
Self-control. self-raisingIssue 38, Winter 2000
Feature

	Pentagram are ‘time-rich’. Browns are the young establishment.
Naked wordsIssue 82, Winter 2012
Feature

	Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the…
Controlled passion: the art of Fernando GutiérrezIssue 36, Summer 2000
Feature
In post-Franco Spain, a cool Catalan breeze blows through the often humid, overheated world of…
Changing of the guardIssue 8, Autumn 1993
Opinion

	American graphic design is divided. The once rebellious avant-garde has become the status quo…
I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who canIssue 13, Summer 1994
Opinion

	British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the…

Recent blog posts by Pentagram

Type Tuesday: Show and tell

27 February 2020

Join us at St Bride Library for Eye’s quarterly Type Tuesday event on 3 March 2020, to hear Marina Willer, Anthony Pearson and Dinah Casson talk about exhibition design

Eye magazine’s next Type Tuesday on 3 March 2020 will focus on exhibition design. STOP PRESS. This event has now sold out.

(Dance) Noted #93

19 June 2019

2wice Arts Foundation; Tanec Praha; identity for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; flamenco magazine El Canon; illustrated campaign for Texas Ballet Theater

Here is a selection of dance-related things that caught our attention in recent weeks.

Graphic days out

10 October 2018

The third edition of Torino Graphic Days, a ‘visual design festival’, shows the playful side of visual communication

In just two years, Torino Graphic Days (TGD) has developed into an ambitious and wide-ranging international ‘visual design festival’, writes Andrew Robertson.

Noted #79

6 January 2017

Graffiti removal, Circular #19, The Phonografik Collectivo, Optimology° and Fermata

Here are a few things – graffiti removal, a Phoenician alphabet project, a media wall installation, Optimology° and a typography magazine – that caught our attention in recent weeks.

Offset Sheffield 2016: day one

7 November 2016

Offset’s first Sheffield conference bought together artists and designers for two days of engaging presentations and lively panel discussions

Last month, a host of speakers from across the design industry came to present their work for Offset Sheffield 2016. Here we publish the first of two reports … written by final-year students at Sheffield Institute of Art’s Graphic Design and Illustration course.

Type on the campaign trail

30 October 2016

US designers contribute type, posters, badges and branding to the Hillary Clinton cause

From the outset, the Hillary Clinton campaign has enlisted the help of some of the United States’ best designers to portray and propagate her messages.

What design didn’t do

30 June 2016

As a designer I feel guilty, says Marina Willer. Could we have done more to stop Brexit?

Twenty years ago, I chose to move from Brazil to London because it is the most diverse and cosmopolitan city in the world, writes Marina Willer.

Books received #18

11 April 2016

A Smile in the Mind, London A to Z, Jean Tinguely, Bad Bonn Song Book and Eating With The Eyes

Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … all reviewed in no more than 140 characters.

Books received #12

19 December 2014

Cut & Paste: 21st Century Collage, Spitalfields Nippers, A Field Guide to East London Wildlife, Shoreditch Wildlife and Eduardo Paolozzi.

Here are a few books that provided a little relief from Eye’s seasonal hangovers in recent days.

Books received #8

7 May 2014

Adventures in Letterpress, Derek Jarman’s Sketchbook, Ant Colony, Fritz Kahn and Other People’s Dogs

Here is a quick look at some titles that have recently arrived at Eye’s Shoreditch office.

Letterpress firecracker in Tribeca

7 May 2013

Eye magazine presents an evening with typographer, designer and letterpress practitioner Alan Kitching in Tribeca on Wednesday

On Wednesday evening there’s an opportunity to see designer and typographer Alan Kitching (of The Typography Workshop) giving a talk at the Skyline Studios in Tribeca.

Offset 2013: day one

9 April 2013

Bob Gill, Louise Fili and Ben Bos explain why design is ‘not a profession but a way of life.’ Pam Bowman reports from the Dublin conference.

Starting at 10am on Friday 5 April and finishing at 7pm the following Sunday, Offset 2013 had a demanding, exhausting programme, writes Pam Bowman. However it was hugely inspirational, with parties to boot!

Type in Wapping

13 November 2012

Pencil to Pixel opens up Monotype’s archive of typographic history, from artwork to artefacts

The ‘Pencil to Pixel’ exhibition, which opens this Friday at Metropolitan Wharf in London, gives visitors is a chance to see some of Monotype’s extensive archive of original artwork, type drawings, arcane artefacts (including justification drums and ships’ curves) and publications.

Every which way

9 July 2012

Abbott Miller’s iPad app gives a new framework to contemporary dance

Fifth Wall, an iPad app designed by Abbott Miller for 2wice Arts Foundation, presents an enticing new platform for the performing arts, writes Sarah Snaith.